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 Library
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+- Issue #12451: pydoc: html_getfile() now uses tokenize.open() to support
+  Python scripts using a encoding different than UTF-8 (read the coding cookie
+  of the script).
+
 - Issue #12493: subprocess: Popen.communicate() now also handles EINTR errors
   if the process has only one pipe.